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Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

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Re: Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

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post #61

Lots of businesses use Zoom for very private things like law and finance. I smell lawsuits.

Yep. If accurate, this will never fly with my employer. We will have an email from someone very high up in the organization very soon explaining how we can no longer use Zoom, and the software will be automatically uninstalled on all the devices they control shortly prior to that email being sent out.

Re: Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

#172
post #36

edit: I'm retracting my earlier comment. Earlier I wrote that the headline didn't seem to match what was in the TOS, since OP never mentioned which part they're concerned about. I'm now assuming the part they don't like is §10.4(ii): > 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights…

Who in their right mind would use Zoom as a service. My employees will never connect to another conference call with a third party that uses zoom again, ever.

I appreciate your sentiment but sometimes there’s immense pressure to use it because it’s what everyone else is using, and refusing would cause a meeting to be disrupted (or force you not to attend).

Re: Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

#173

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As long as the paychecks aren't hallucinations I'm good with it.

I think that's the future with AGI - no more paychecks. What will happen when the cost of every service is zero since it's been delegated to machines?

We return to the barter economy. Money is obsolete.

Re: Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

#174
post #121

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Why setup a separate broadcast when listeners can just join the meeting room?

Yes, I know it's more comfortable that way, but if you have to decide between giving all your data from all your meetings to a random US company and a slight annoyance whenever you do conferences with more than 500(!) participants, the choice is pretty simple to me. Giving all the data to zoom probably means also giving it to most US law enforcement agencies (should they request it), that would be a big no no for me.

Not to mention that until very recently even MS Teams sent you to a different product when you wanted to stream to 500 people. Even if it's now integrated, it's still a different product inside (and e.g. you could for example open a new window when you were in a 500 people "meeting" at the time when you still could not do so for a regular meeting).

Re: Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

#175
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're both misquoting and misunderstanding. Misquoting in that you clipped out the "to the extent and in the manner permitted under applicable Law". And misunderstanding since the text was talking "service generated data", not about "customer data". That's basically data generated by their system (e.g. debug logs). It's not the data you entered into the system (contact information), the calls you made, the chats you…

> And misunderstanding since the text was talking "service generated data", not about "customer data". Isn't that what section 10.4 covers and ultimately grants liberal rights to Zoom? > 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, i…

Yes, but that's not the section that this subthread was about, and the objection about "this can't be legal in the EU and UK" was based on the text quoted for service generated content which is different.

And again, this is about granting an license on the intellectual property. It doesn't create any kind of end-run around the GDPR, and wouldn't e.g. count as consent for GDPR purposes.

Re: Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

#176
post #82

At what point are they actually stealing our souls to train AI? Art? Private comments to our loved ones?

Not stealing it, copying it. And your loved ones will be glad to have a copy after you die. You're welcome!

For a price…

Re: Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

#178
post #11

Thankfully nothing like this is in Jitsi Meet’s TOS: https://jitsi.org/meet-jit-si-terms-of-service/ It never ceases to amaze me how companies choose the worst software!

For various reasons I have a bunch of different groups where I use different videocall software for regular meetings - Zoom, Jitsi, Teams, Skype, Google Meet and Webex. Out of all those, Jitsi is the only one where I can't rely on the core functionality - video calls and screensharing for small meetings (5-6 people); I have had multiple cases when we've had to switch to something else because the video/audio quality…

Bigger servers?

Re: Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

#179
post #133

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And this continues even after the human race disappears. There's a dystopian sci-fi novel here somewhere.

Hopefully someone has the Net Terminal Gene to shut the system off.

We could call it telomerasa.
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